JOB SEARCHING AND NEXT STEPS SESSION PLAN

SESSION: JOB SEARCHING AND NEXT STEPS
Expected Progress:
Identify best ways to search for job vacancies
Identify specific training/educational needs for differing careers
Be able to source careers information/guidance / Description: This session supports young people to plan for future careers and undertake practical tasks in planning towards this.
NB: this plan can be adapted to stretch over a number of days, depending on the length of your session.
Resources required:
Flipchart paper, pens, scissors, glue
Online support eg
Access to computers and printers Newspapers with Job Vacancies (optional)
Outfit Print Outs (optional)
Computers with internet
Worksheets / LLN Opportunities:
Read and understand texts in a variety of formats: online, newspaper, job centre adverts
Use a variety of reading techniques to obtain specific information from different sources
Use planning skills to complete and application form / STEM Opportunities:
Disseminate information, make lists regarding job skills, questions, and points to follow up on (Organisation and Task Setting, Systematic Thinking) / Qualifications Opportunities:
Career Planning
SCQF Career Planning
DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITY / RESOURCES / SUGGESTED LEARNING OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
Introduction and icebreaker
Where can we search for jobs?
Ask all the young people to each identify a place/way to search for jobs, list them on one piece of flipchart that everyone can see. Discuss and put a star next to all of the places they can directly search for jobs and the method behind these.
Ask the young people to identify what they think are the top 3 places to search for jobs and record their individual contributions on a piece of flipchart paper. / Flipchart
Marker Pens / Know where and how to search for jobs
Searching for opportunities
Using the career choices that young people have previously identified, ask them to search for job descriptions, training requirements on the National Careers Service website.
Young people should be able to find 2 relevant job vacancies using the methods they have identified (this could be on the internet, in the paper or some existing printed examples that you have already printed off). If using the internet, identify a couple of good websites to share with them prior to the task.
Ask young people to print evidence of relevant jobs and training opportunities that they identify
Pre-teach any key vocabulary, phrases or abbreviations YP may come across and record on wordwall/flipchart.
/ Access to computers and printers
Newspapers with Job Vacancies (optional)
Glue
Scissors
Dictionaries
Pencils / Level 1/Scotland Level 4
Assessment Criteria: Identify job vacancies and training opportunities relevant to the identified career options
Identifying training needs
At higher levels, ask learners to take some time researching the training requirements for each job/career they have identified.
Challenge young people to explain why training programmes or courses are relevant to their chosen career(s).
Ask young people to revisit their action plans and record any new goals they might have identified in planning for their chosen career. / Access to computers and printers / Identifying specific training/educational needs for chosen careers

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